Google Lit Trips uses Google Earth to track the road trips that literary characters take. There is information about the different places that he/she visits throughout the book.
How can you use it?
When reading a novel students can learn about different places that the character visits.
It is a great way to make reading a novel cross-curricular with Social Studies.
Why would you use it?
The already created Lit Trip makes it easy for teachers to make the story come to life for students while teaching them about different places around the world.
Pros- There are Lit Trips already created for some novels. Great pictures and fun facts to engage students. Cons- It looks to be time consuming to create one from scratch.
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